[mythtv-users] Please help! My mythbackend started to crash sporadically

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/03/2008 12:25 PM, lists_mythtv_users wrote:
> Joe Ripley wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:14 AM, lists_mythtv_users wrote:
>>     
>>> There have been several great responses on this topic detailing how to
>>> diagnose a hardware fault.  Can anyone suggest how to help diagnose a
>>> software fault?  Is there a way to capture useful information from a
>>> backtrace that could be passed on to a myth/kernel/driver developer in
>>> order to give them some insight into some code that can be improved?
>> When it comes to Myth:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2
> Thanks for the info.
>
> In summary, I'd have to recompile MythTV with debugging support 
> enabled.

Depends on your distro.

>   Is it feasible to compile the myth source and replace the 
> mythbackend binary that was installed from RPM with a mythbackend binary 
> compiled with debugging support enabled?  Or would I have to go the 
> whole hog and do "./configure --compile-type-debug && make && make install"?

Many distros make debug symbols available as a package.  See your 
friendly #ubuntu-mythtv or ATrpms forum or ... users for help.

Mike